Word: cdf
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...hope will be a massive end-run around politicians, thousands of children's advocates will march on Washington this weekend to plead for a renewed national commitment to meet the varied needs of children. The "Stand for Children" march, organized by Marian Wright Edelman's Children's Defense Fund (CDF), comes at a time when federal programs for children are targets of a budget-cutting Congress and of a White House that has proved willing to experiment with the social safety net. Conservative groups such as the Family Research Council and the Traditional Values Coalition this week dismissed the event...
...Although the event will likely draw many thousands of people to the capital, the CDF's agenda in part, to save and expand programs like Head Start is foundering on Capitol Hill. And despite the fact that Hillary Clinton is a past CDF chairman and children's advocate, the organizers have also stopped counting on support from a mercurial White House. When President Clinton voiced his support last year for a Senate bill that would transform federal welfare spending into a system of smaller, block grants to the states which would eliminate the safety net of protections for children...
Protecting children is the surest way of protecting the future of America, said Marian W. Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) to a full house at the IOP's ARCO Forum at the Kennedy School last night...
Edelman, a long-time advocate for children, founded CDF in 1973. She said she believes in establishing strong families and communities to protect the rights and needs of children...
Edelman also described her efforts to plan CDF's National Stand for Children Day, scheduled for June 1, when individuals from families and communities from across the nation will gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington...